India is stupid because it thought that the West would do the same mistake. They won't allow a second China.
So they are already preparing the ground with these media and assassination claims. The moment the West decides to turn on India, it will immediately activate these cards
India is screwed. West won't help it, China won't help it. Guess it has to develop by itself lol
They have not allowed China either. When China was at its nadir, they launched a war even larger than the Ukraine war, aiming to take over China's border region and turn it into a harmless state, like Russia is doing to Ukraine. They just failed on the battlefield. Even today, they're trying to turn Taiwan into their Crimea, but China is holding.
They also put us under their toughest sanctions, but it wasn't sustainable as they'd wreck their economies doing so and lose to the USSR. So they retreated to the position of "as much sanctions as we can afford".
US has actually done nearly its best to "allow" India in the hopes it can become China 2.0. India is exempt to all sanctions, they were given the right to assassinate nato citizens within reasonable bounds, the giant US state media apparatus puts to work defending and promoting Indian goods. The assistance and privilege from US given to India is maybe second only to Israel.
But US is not in a position to choose or allow who can be a great power. China is a nation that always floats back up to the top no matter how you damage it. India is a nation with no history of even unified self government. Waiting for India to become the next China, you might as well wait for Australian aboriginals to become the next America.